Brassiere.



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Patented Jan. 11, 1916.

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BRASSIERE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT-[9,191-1.

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EDGAR G'UGGENHEIM, OF NEW YORK, N.1Y., ASSIGNOR T0 MEYER W. SCHLOSS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y. I

BRASSIERE.

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Specification of Letters Eatent.

Application filed September 19, 1914. Serial No. 862,432.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDGAR GUGGENHEIM, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of New York, in the borough of Manhattan and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Brassieres, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to the article ofwomens apparel known as brassiere, the object being to provide a construction which will not only serve efiiciently the usual functions of a brassiere but which can be manufactured at low cost.

The article, according to my invention, is made of elastic webbing or'bands stitched together in such manner as to produce a,

shape that will fit the breast, and without' cutting the rubber strands which are incorporated in the webbing. In this way the elasticity of the device as a whole is preserved and the waste which is experienced in the manufacture of such articles as here tofore practised is avoided, as will be more fully explained hereinafter. a

In the accompanying drawings: Figure l is a view of the outer face of the device when laid out flat; Fig. 2 is a section on line w--x, of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a partial View of the inner face of the device; and Figs. 4 and 5 illustrate the application of the device to the human figure.

The article is preferably made as usual in two parts orwings A and B secured together at the back by a lacing a by means of which the size can be adjusted within limits. The two edges (1 and b which meet at the front are provided with any suitable fastening devices such as hooks and eyes for holding the brassiere upon'thc body. 'The two wings A and B arecon'structed alike each preferably being a continuous sheet of material elastic in a longitudinal direction but inelastic laterally or vertically, The sheet is made of a suitable number of bands of webbing of textile material having strands of rubber incorporated therein in a longitudinal direction to afi'ordthe elasticity in one direction only. The invention has to do more particularly with the manner of arranging and securing these bands of webbing together whereby cup-shaped cavities or pockets are formed to accommodate the lobes of the breast, without the necessity of cutting the webbing and thereby destroying its elasticity. To accompllsh this, the bands in which the pocket is formed are stitched together edge to edge in the region of the apex of the pocket as seen at o, c, and from this region toward diametrically opposite sides of the'pocket the bands above and'below the intermediate band d converge across the face of the intermediate band and have their edgesstitched to the face of the latter as. seen at f, f. This produces afullness or cavity, the vertical diameter of which is the full width of the bandsthus arranged and the horizontal diameter is the distance from apex to apex of the converging upper and lower bands or from g to h.

In order to obtain the reducing eficct which a brassiere is supposed to afford, it is necessary, when'elasticity is relied uponfor the effect, to use rubber strands in the fabric,- since no other material or textile structure will. afiord the necessary amount of elasticity. Attempts have been made heretofore to make this article of textile fabric containing rubber by forming the pocket or cavity portion in one piece, the shape being obtained by a peculiar form of loom or machine which would so dispose the various threads as to produce the fullness. This method is objectionable because of'the large waste due to the breaking or cutting of the strands of rubber by the peculiar machine referred to, thus making the cost of thejperfeet product very high.

My invention, as described, utilizes perfectly straight flat elastic webbing easily made without waste in the ordinary looms, and which are put together in such a manner as to form the fulllness or pocket without cutting any of the rubber strands incorporated therein.

Since the essential feature of my invention has to do with the construction of the pools ets in the brassiere, the construction of the remainder of the article herein disclosed is unimportant. For instance, it may be made up wholly of the elastic bands stitched together as shown, or portions of it may'consist of netting or plain fabric. In the construction of the pockets, it is obvious that the middle and upper and lower bands may each comprise one or more narrower bands stitched edge to edge throughout, it being essential only that the upper and lower Patented Jan. 11, 1915.

bands as a Whole converge across the face of the middle band in front and rear respectively of the apex of the pocket.

I claim: I

1. A brassiere having pockets to accom- 'modate the breast lobes, constructed of flat strips of elastic fabric, two of said strips converging toward each' other at diametri- Cally opposite locations and across the face of an intermediate strip, the edges of said converging strips being stitched to the face of the intermediate strip, substantially as described.

2. A supporting device for a portion of the body, comprising a pocket to accommodate such portion, said pocket being constructed of fiat strips of elastic fabric two of which are superposed upon one face of a third strip and converge therea cross, the converging strips being stitched to the face of the third strip.

3. A. supporting band for the body comprising a pocket portion formed of fiat elastie bands, tWo of which are separated from each other at their middle portions and converge toward each other until they intersect at their end portions, and a third band to Which said converging bands are attached.

In Witness whereof I subscribe my signature, in the presence of two Witnesses.

EDGAR GUGGENHEIM.

Witnesses:

WALno M. CHAPIN, J ITLE ZELENKO. 

